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Five Reasons Why I Love Hip Hop Music Now
Palm Springs is hosting a block party and you"re invited. The open-air concert event, Tachevah: A Palm Springs Block Party, takes place April 17, 2013 at 5 p.m. and stars indie band, Passion Pit. With the Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival in full swing, more than 7,500 people are expected to attend the block party that will feature two beer gardens and 10 vendor booths.

The announcement of the album came during the CMA festival wristbands in Nashville. The announcement was in the Music City Center, complete with Christmas trees, fake snow, and a large snow-globe. The project will be a mix of music and the family"s "special brand of Southern, down-home sense of humor." It is being produced by Buddy Cannon, who has produced projects for Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson, Jamey Johnson, and more.
JON AUER: To me, it"s become both less precious and yet more accomplished somehow. I"d point to the years of experience, together and apart, as the reason - we have so much more creative "water" to draw from "the well" so to speak.
What if another 9/11 event wristbands occurs? Will it be said it happened on Obama"s watch? Will he be blamed for things out of his control? What if President Obama follows UN direction and uses force in Darfur, or Somalia? Only time will tell, my friends.
Experience the bliss sport wristbands of a healthy lifestyle at the Healthy Living Festival which is going to take place on October and at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Learn about living a healthy life, adopting healthier habits, maintaining a healthy weight and a healthy home.
Very untapped part of Vista is its voice recognition. To put it it, make sure the microphone attached, and then click the Start button, type windows speech recognition and press Enter. Now you taken by the installation process. Before you know it, youll be using your voice instructions instead of keyboard and mouse. It is also very useful for dictates, rather than typing text in the documents.
Now, the great news for you is performing skills, like all skills, can be developed and nurtured through the right type of practice, training and coaching. And, many of these performing skills are abilities that you already possess. Further, in terms of performing, a little bit goes a long way. You will be thrilled how a few little changes make your presentation a lot more fun for you and your audience.
Move over Kim Kardashian, this exhibitionist Japanese octogenarian spends her retired life taking hilarious viral selfies. Creative Kimiko Nishimoto may look like your ordinary run-of-the-mill pensioner, but the grammable grandma has a unique hobby. The 89-year-old dresses up and chooses locations for her one-woman pictures, including scenes where she is a gorilla in a zoo or being run over by a bus. Using a personal studio set up in her Kumamoto prefecture home in Japan, Kimiko polishes her hilarious scenes using Photoshop. [Photo/IC]

* Govt approves plans to let workers draw pensions after 70

* May raise retirement age for 3.4m civil servants to 65

* Japan is facing worst labor shortages in four decades

TOKYO - Japan has okayed plans to let people choose to start drawing their state pensions beyond the age of 70 as it grapples with severe labor shortages, ballooning welfare costs and a shriveling tax base stemming from its graying population.

The government said on Friday it would look to cement the proposals through legal changes after April 2020, adding that it would look at raising in stages the mandatory retirement age for some 3.4 million civil servants to 65 from the current 60.

Japanese people can currently choose to start receiving their pensions at any point between the ages of 60 and 70, with bigger monthly payments offered to those who do so after their 65th birthdays.

The policies may offer clues to how countries from Germany and Italy to China and South Korea could deal with the challenges sparked by their own ageing societies, from a lack of workers to spiraling welfare spending.

Japan has the world"s highest life expectancy, while the number of births last year fell to their lowest since records began over a century ago. Its population will shrink to 88 million from the current 127 million in the next four decades, the government estimates.

The grim demographics, coupled with a reluctance to loosen tight immigration rules, have led to the worst labor shortages since the early 1970s. The squeeze stifles the potency of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe"s economic policies, the International Monetary Fund has said.

Abe has pushed for more elderly people to remain in work and stay active in later life, as part of his "work style" reforms aimed at revving up economic growth and productivity. The government said on Friday it would also support companies that raise their mandatory retirement age.

Most Japanese companies require full-time employees to retire at 60. The system is a keystone of Japan"s traditional jobs-for-life employment structure where workers are virtually guaranteed employment from graduation to retirement.

More than half are planning to raise the retirement age, a Reuters poll last year showed.